Check-controlled apparatus.



' W. L. HAMILTON. CHECK commons!) APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 27, I911.

Patented May 4, 1915.

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Specification 0'! Letters Patent.

Patented Ma 4., 1915.

Original application filed August 15, 1911, Serial No. 644,136. Divided and this application flled October 27,

. 1911. Serial Ne. 657,074.

To all whom it may concern: o

Be it known that I, WALTER Looms Ham- ILTON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Holyoke, in thecounty of Hampden and State of- Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Check-Oputrolled Apparatus, (the same being a divi-. sional part of my application, Serial No. 644,136, filed in the United States Patent Office August '15, 1911),of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates'to improvements in coin-operated mechanism or apparatus A. which is especially adapted for automatic,

motor-operated vending machines, and con! sists. of certain peculiar guiding. and re-. ceiving means for. coins, and intermediate means controlled by the coins for releasing a device to which the motor is subject and through the medium of which said motor is started and stopped together with such other elements as may be necessary to render practicable and give full efiect to the .apparatus,all as hereinafter set forth,

The object of my invention is to produce practicable and serviceable coin-open. ated mechanism for controlling or releasing motor-controlling mechanism for a vending machine, such mechanism including or being provided with means to safeguar the same by preventing tampering therewith, and with means to prevent the surreptitious withdrawal of the coins inserted in the machine. 1

Other objects will appear in the course of p the following description.

This invention is particularly well adapted fora paper-towel-vending machine, the towcling being supplied to the machine in rolls, and short lengths of such toweling,

each sufficient to serve as an individual towel, being automatically delivered in A practical form of of the.

invention (as applied for towel-vendin purposes), whereby I attain the objects and secure the advantages of the same, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and

I will roceed to describe said invention with re erence to saiddrawings, although it is to be understood that the form, con

struetion, arrangement, etc., of the parts in various aspects are not material and may be modified withoutdeparture from the spirit of the invention.

111 the drawings, in which like numerals designate. like parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a paper-towel-vending machine equipped with my check-controlled apparatus, the door of the. case being open or rather removed en- 3 tirely so as. to expose to view the interior right-hand end of the case; Fig. 4, a trans verse vertical section through the machine, taken on lines 4-4, looking in the direction of the associated arrow, in Fig. 1; Fig.

.5, a left-hand end elevation of the feed-rollers and the cutting-rollers, showing. the gears and pinions that drive the, same; Fig.

6, an interior elevation of the lower half of the case and contents as viewed from the right-hand end, the case plate at that end having been removed; Fig. 7, a sectional detail on lines 77, looking in the direction of the associated arrow, in Fig. 8; Fig. 8, a horizontal section through the machine, taken on lines 88, looking down as indicated by the associated arrow, in Fig. 1, and, Fig. 9, a transverse vertical section through the switch taken on lines 9-9, looking in the direction of the associated arrow, in Fig '5. Other arrows,- besides those mentioned above, indicate the directions of moving parts. 4

i will describe only briefly those parts of the mach ne that do not. enter intimately into the present invention, commencing with the housing, but will explain very fully'the apparatus, including all devices which may be, said to form portions and all closely associated parts and members that may not beactual or constituent elements of such apparatus, which constitutes the subject matter of this application. For fuller details in regard to the towel-vending machine illustrated in connection herewith, attention is directed to the application of which this application is a divisional part, and to an other divisional application filed on even date herewith.

The housing above alluded to consists of a case 1 and a door 2, the latter constituting the top, front and bottom sides of the housing or for said case, and being hinged at 5 to the back of said case at the base. The door 2 is capableof being securely fastened when closed by means of a padlock (not shown) which has its shackle passed through perforated lugs 6 and 10 which are respectively mounted on the case 1 and said door. In the upper part of the .door near the right-hand edge is a coinslot 11, andin the bottom of said door near the back edge is a longitudinal towel-delivery slot 12.

On the inside of each end of the case 1 is a" U-shaped flange 13 and a U-shaped spring 14. A shaft 15, for a roll 16 of paper-toweling, is journaled in the flanges 13. Two hubs 17 are mounted, one fast and the other loose, on the shaft 15, between the springs 14, and the roll 16, which has a pasteboard core 18, is in turn mounted on inwardlydirected parts 19 of said hubs. The springs 14 accommodate the supply-holding device to rolls of different lengths, serve to locate the roll in the same relative position in the case,

and afford the necessary tension for the same.

The toweling passes from the top and back of the roll 16, downward between two horizontal feed-rollers 20 arranged one in front of the other, between horizontal cutting-rollers 21 and 22 arranged below said feed-rollers and with said cutting-roller 21 in front is said cutting-roller 22, to and through a vertical guide 23 which is supported by a horizontal floor 24 in the case 1. The floor 24 is the real floor of the case, although raised some little distance above the bottom of the door 2, it being assumed wherever said door is mentioned that the same is closed unless otherwise stated. The guide 23 and the above-mentioned rollers are long enough to accommodate and handle the widest strip of toweling which the machine is capable of dispensing. The guide has a flaring mouth at its upper end which opens beneath the cutting-rollers 21 and 22,

and said guide opens at the bottom into the slot 12 in the door 2, which slot is of the same size substantially as is the bottom of the messes guide. At 25 is represented a strip of toweling from the roll 16.

The floor 24' has a coin slot 26 therein, WlllCh is under and parallel with the slot 11. Below the floor 24 in front of the guide 23 s a money box 27 open at the top and slidmgly supported by end lugs 28-28 on ledges 2929 on the inside of the ends of the case 1. When the door 2 is open the box 27 can be drawn forward so as to afford access to the contents thereof, or can be removed altogether, but when said door is closed with said box in place the only access to be had thereto is by way of the slot 26 in the floor 24 above. The slot 26 is situated in the floor 24 adjacent to the front side of the box 27. Said front side of the box is interiorly concave, and is provided with a coin-guide flange 30 which extends to the left and downward from the righthand end of the box. The object of the guide flange 30 is to receive and direct coins as they drop through the slot 26, into the interior of the box 27, or to cause them to .ing against the concave surface of said box front, alights edgewise on the flange 30, and

at once rolls down said flange and said concave surface until the end of the'flange is reached, when the coin dropsoii on to the floor of the box, although it may still continue to roll, but if so its general direction is toward the left-hand back corner of the box or in any event away from the vicinity of the entrance slot.

As connecting mediums between the slot 11, where the coin is introduced into the case, to the slot 26, where'the coin escapes into the coin box 27 after doing its work, there are provided an approximately vertical chute 31, a lever 32, and two guide ears 33- which are separated by a space that slightly exceeds the thickness of the coin. In addition to these parts there is also a mouth-piece 34. Two lugs 35, which extend inwardly from the right-hand end of the case 1, support the chute 31, the adjacent edge of said chute being attached to said lugs. The chute 31"is of usual construction, being of the size which permits a coin of the proper denomination to slide freely down the same, and said chute has at its upper end the mouth-piece 34 previously mentioned. The mouth-piece 34 is mounted on a pin 36 that projects inwardly from the adjacent end of the case. The mouth-piece is so hung on the pin 36 and so positioned relative to the slot 11 and to the chute 31,

60 1 open at the top and at the right-hand end,

' of 'which it forms a' supplementary part,

i piece is inopen relationjtosaid slot while that normally the upper end of said mouth:

a chute at the bottom. The purpose-of closing the upper end of the chute 31 with the mouthpiece 34 is to prevent manipulation of the apparatus by meansof a wire intr0-.

duced into the chute, or a coin attached to I a thread so as to enable such coin to be withdrawn after starting the machine. Owing to the fact that the mouth-piece cannot be positioned so as to leave any considerable portions of the slot'll and the upperend of the chute open at the same time, any attempt at surreptitiously or fraudulently operating the machine must prove ineffectual. If

a proper coin be passed through the slot 11 into the mouth-piece 34, however, the weight of the coin after it gets below the pivotal point 36 causes said mouth-piece to rock forward at the bottom into position 'to admit the coin to the chute '31-and at the. same timeto rock rearwardly at the top and close said slot.' The coin at once slides down the chute, and as soon as'the mouth-piece is re.- lieved from the weight of said coin said mouth-piece returns to former position whereby'it closes said chute and opens the slot 11. In order to insure the proper working of the mouth-piece, it is arranged at an incline, the upper end being in advance of the lower end, and it is also counterweighted at 37. A deflecting finger 38, for the coin, rises from the rear edge of the chute 31 at the top, the rear wall of the mouth-piece 34 being slotted at 39 to accommodate said finger. The coin, in sliding down within the mouth-piece, strikes the finger or deflector 38, in case said mouth-piece does not has awedging eflect that overcomes the inswing quickly enough to open the chute, and

ertia of the mouth-piece.

Project ng be ow the base of the front edge of. the chute 31 is a tail-piece 40, and

having its ends attached to the sides of said chute and extendin downwardly therefrom is a U-shaped gui e41 for the front ter-.

minal of the lever 32. The tail-piece 40 is curved and its arc is concentric with the are described by the adjacent terminal of the lever 32. The guide 41, between the vertical arms of which the aforesaid lever terminal operates, is of a length and shape and insuch position as to enable said lever tomake its full stroke in both directions while under the influence of said guide. At the terminal of the lever that is within the guide 41 is a coinmeceiver 42, which is the floor of said receiver being formed by the lever itself and the receiver. being closed at the left-hand end. The space for the plane and parallel with each other and with 'the aforesaid spaces; The ears 33 rise from the floor 24 and project inwardly from the right-hand end of the case 1, and they extend a-little way over the adjacent edge of the slot 26. This and the opposite end of say slot are beveled downwardly to the It is now clear that the coin, upon entering the chute 31 in the manner previouslydescribed, drops through said chute into the receiver 42, from which latter said coin is prevented from escaping'by the tail-piece 40 until the lever 32 is moved downward at its free end low enough to permit the coin to roll out of said receiver under the base of said tail-piece into the space between the ears 33, which it proceeds to do owing to the inclination of said-lever at this time. The lever having been swung downward by the coin is now in the position indicated by dotand-dash lines in Fig. 1, which locates the receiver 42 over and quite close to the slot 26, and in such a position that said receiver can rise without the coin. As soonas the lever carries the receiver upward again, which it next proceeds to do, the slot 26 is uncovered and the coin \rolls through the same into the box 27, because the center of gravity: of the coin is at the left of the ex- .treme right-hand edge of said slot.

, ing paragraph that said lever has a vertical swing at its com-receiving terminal, without going into the matter in detail. Situated on the floor" 24 somewhat remote from the lefthand end of the, case 1, is a casing 43, and rising from saidfloor within said casing is an inverted L-shaped bracket 44. The arm at the. top of the bracket 44 extends to the left from the upright part of the bracket, and a trip-arm 45 is 'pivotally mounted, between the left-hand end of said bracket arm and'a bearing 46 which extends inwardly from the adjacent side of the casing 43, on a pin 47 which passes through said bracket arm, said trip-arm and said hearing. The trip-arm 45 passes out through a slot 48 in the front side of the casing 43, and the frontterminal of said arm is-bent downwardly and then forwardly to have attached thereto the lower end of a coiled spring 49. The

upper end of the spring 49 is adjustably dEL projects inwardly from the left-hand end of the case 1, said lever having a transverse notch 55 in the top to receive said bearing edge. The lever 32 and the trip-arm 45 are arranged at right-angles to each other. The lug 54 is provided with two ears 56 that extend below the ends of the bearing edge 53 to receive betweenthem the fulcrumed end of the lever 32 and prevent the same from moving laterally out of engagement with said bearing edge. That portion of the trip-arm 45 that is mounted directly on the pivot 47 is slotted longitudinally at 57, and set in such slot and mounted on said p1v0t is a latch 58 for a switch consisting in part of a movable member or section which latter said latch is designed to hold and release. The latch 58 has a hook 59 on the bottom edge behind the pivot 47, and a stop projection 60 that extends in front of said p1v0t and under the adjacent part of the trip-arm 45 which is cut away to accommodate such projection. A portion of the trip-arm 45 is broken away in Fig. 7 to expose the pro ection 60 in full. The latch 58 projects behind the hook -59, and being thus c0unterweighted is normally positioned with .the stop projection 60 up against the trip-arm 45. The trip-arm projects rearwardly over the latch and is counterweighted at 61 for the reason presently to be given. There is clearance enough between the latch and the overhanging terminal of the trip-arm to enable said latch to function properly.

A switch frame 62 is secured to the floor 24 within the casing 43 and under the latch 58, and such frame is provided with a movable segment 63 which is pivoted at its lower end in front to the front end of said frame, at 64, and has a tooth or hook 65 on top for engagement with the latch hook 59. When closed the segment 63 bears with its upper rear end on the corresponding end of the frame 62, closing the gap between such ends, and when opened said segment is swung upward, and its hook 65 encounters the hook 59 and rocks the latch 58 upwardly out of the way until said hook 65 passes said hook 59, when said latch rocks down into normal position again with its hook now behind the hook 65. The segment 63 is in this manner held up by the latch until a coin drops into the receiver 42, then the lever 32 is swung downward on the point of fulcrum, by said coin, and carries with it the triparm 45 against the resiliency of the spring 49, and said arm thus rocked on the pivot 47 act-uates the latch. 58, through the medium of the stop projection 60, and raises the book 59 so that said hook becomes disengaged from the hook 65 and said segment is released and permitted to drop and close the gap in the switch.

The lever 32 is light, the spring 49 is properly adjusted, and said lever and the trip-arm 45 with the latch 58 are nicely balanced, to the end that the weight of a coin falling into the receiver 42 is sufficient to overcome the force of the spring and all frictional and other resistance, upset the balance, and bring about the release of the segment 63. When the lever 32 is released by the coin or relieved from the weight thereof, the spring 49 asserts itself and elevates the trip-arm 45 and with said triparm said lever. The force of the spring 49 becomes weaker, ofcourse, as the trip-arm and the lever approach the ends of their upward travel, said spring having expended its energy before such ends are reached, but the combined weight of the latch and triparm behind the pivot 50, which has been of some assistance to the spring from the start, now furnishes enough added power, owing to the new positions which the parts have already assumed, to bring about the complete restoration to normal positions and conditions of the parts being considered. By thus making use of a spring and counterweights and arranging them in the manner explained, the operation of the lever 32 by the coin is enhanced, because an opportunity is afforded for the coin to start said lever on its downward course before meeting with the full resistance of the spring, such resistance subsequently being overcome by the momentum of the lever due to the weight of the coin.

The segment 63 is actuated upward into engaging relation with the latch 58 by means of an eccentric 66 and a lug 67 which projects to the right, from the top of said segment, over said eccentric. The latter is fast on a shaft 68 which is journaled in the upright part of the bracket 47 and in the adjacent end of the case 1 after passing through the intervening side of the casing 43. In the drawings the segment 63 is represented as being held up by the latch 58. The eccentric raises the segment when the high part of the periphery of said eccentric passes under the lug 67, the members being so proportioned and positioned that the eccentric encounters said lug at the time it is required thatthe segment be swung upwardly on the pivot 64. A bow spring 69 is arranged to force the segment toward the upper back end of the frame 62 or retain it in looking engagement with the latch. The contiguous faces of the hooks 59 and 65 are so arranged that very little poweris required to overcome the force of the spring 69 and unlock the parts when the latch-58 is. tilted upward by the trip-arm 45.

4 .In addition ,to theframe 62 with movable segment63, the switch comprises two pairs of metal contactpieces 70 fittedwithm said frame and segment, one pair infeach, and separated from the frame and segment by segmental insulators '71, one such 111511- lator being interposed between'the' frame and the p'air of contact pieces'thereimand the other' such insulator beinginterposed between the segment'and the pair of contact pieces rovided for the-samei The contact pieces 0 in' each pair are separated from "each other" by a segmental insulaton 72,

i there being such an insulator for the frame 62 and another for the segment 63. The

- thejoint adjacentto' the pivot '64, whether the segment 63 be' open' or closed.

1' The shaft K38 marks the axial 'center of the "switch, and fast on said shaft inside of" the revolution,

switch is an arm374of insulatingmaterial and provided at its outer' end with a bifurcated brush '7 5 of spring" metal designed tocontact forcibly with the'co'ntactpieces and .to travel "around practically the entire course of their inner faces, one branch of suchbrushtrave'ling around .the twocontact pieces on one side of the insulators 72 and ;the other branch of such brush traveling around the'two contact pieces on the. other side of said insulators. The space between the branches and the brush enables said brush to clear the insulators 72; Inasmuch as the brush 7 5' is insulated, when the same is in contact with the contact pieces 70,

which are themselves'insuhted, the dead space is bridged and a circuit formed from the contact piece on one side with which said'br'ush is in enga ement 'to the contact piece on the other side with which "said rush is in engagement, and the jumpers 73 connect electrically the two contact pleces 'on'thetwo 'sidesL i i Whenthe brush 75 is in the space between the upraised end of the segment 63' and the adjacent end of the frame 62, it is out'of contact with the contact pieces 70 and the circuit is broken at the switch, but when said segment is released and comes down on said brush such circuit is closed and it remains closed while said brush makes one complete or' until the brush rides clear of the frame contact pieces into by the segment when again swung upwardly by the eccentric 66. n

An electric motor 76 is supported on the floor 24 adjacent to the right-hand end of the case 1. This motor when energized drives the feed-rollers 20 and the cutting-rollers 21 and 22. The motor 76 is in an electric circuit made up'jof a wire 77 which connects said motor with a suitable source of electrithe space left cal energy outside of the case 1 and enters said case, with a wire 78, through the righthand end thereof, a wire 7 9 which connects one of the jumpers 73 with said motor, and said wire 78 which connects the other umper 73 with said sourceof electrical energy, to-

gether with said umpers, the contact pieces 70 and the'brush-75. I i

The feed-rollers 20 are merely contacting rollers of usual construction' for' flexible strip-actuating p oses. The front feedroller 20-i'smounte fast on a shaft 80 that is j ournaled at opposite ends in suitable bearings which pro ect inwardly from the ends of the case 1. The rear 'feed-roller 20 is mounted fast on a shaft- 81 that is journaled at the left-hand endin a bearing which projects inwardly fromthe corresponding end of the case 1, and at the-right-hand end in a "bracket 82 which projectsinwardly from the back side of the case. The cutting-rollers 21 and 22 are respectively mounted fast on shafts :88 and 84 thatare journaled in the samewa asjthe shaft -81is' journaled. The cutting roller are mutilated in .a similar manner by having nearly onehalf of each omitted throughout the entire length. By thus constructing the aforesaid rollers and properly mounting them relatively on the shafts 83 and 84, provision is made-for grip- "ping the paper strip 25 during a part of each revolution of said rollers, and for leaving a clear space between them for said strip during the remainder of such revolution and while the cutting rollers are inactive. The cutting-roller 21 is equipped with a longitudinal cutter 85 that projects from the full periphery or high part'of said roller. The cutting-roller 22 has a longitudinal groove 86, in the periphery of its high part, to afford clearance for the cutter 85 when the cutting-rollers revolve.

The motor 7 6 has a shaft 87 with a pinion 88 thereon.' The pinion 88 meshes with a gear 89 which is rigidly connected with a' pinion 90. The gear 89 and the pinion 90 are loosely mounted on a stud 91 which projects inwardly from the adjacent end of the case 1. The pinion 90 meshes with a large gear 92 fast on the shaft 80. Also fast on the shaft 80 is a gear 93 that meshes with a gear 94 of the same size on the shaft 81. Thus the feed-rollers 20 are driven, at the proper speed and in the proper directions to actuate the strip 25 downward, from the motor.

Mounted fast on,the shaft 68, between the casing 43 and the adjacent end of the case 1, is a large gear 95 which is driven by a meshing pinion 96 fast on the adjacent terminal of the shaft 80, and a large se ental gear; 97 which imparts but one revo ution to the cutting-rollers 21 and 22 while the feed-rollers 20 are making half a dozen revolutions, more or less. 4 The segmental gear 97 drives the cutting-roller 21- directly by means of a pinion 98 fast on the shaft 83, with which said gear meshes, and the cutting-roller 22 receives the same motion, only in the opposite direction, at. the same rate of speed through the medium of a gear 99 fast on sald shaft and a meshing car 100 of thesame size on the shaft 84. The same means that drives the gear 95 also drives the brush arm 74, since both said gear and arm are fast on the same shaft, 68. The actuating mechanism is so timed that the cutting-rollers are driven a little faster than the feed-rollers, so as to strain the toweling strip 25, while in the grasp of the two pairs of rollers, and

thus facilitate the cutting action of the mem- 7 her 85 on said strip, it being then, that is, while the strip is in the grasp of the bottom as well as the top rollers, that said member or cutter comes into play.

The operation of the machine elements and especially of the coin-operated mechanism will be quite well understood from the foregoing, so that only the brief description which follows is necessary for a clear idea of the operation as a whole. dropped through the slot 11 into the mouthpiece 34 and quickly escapes from the'latter into the chute 31 and thence into the coinreceiver 12. The lever 32 is swung down: ward by the coin in the receiver 12, when said co1'n rolls out into the space between the ears 33 and from there through the slot 26 into the box 27. When depressed the lever 32 actuates the trip-arm 45 and causes the latch 58 to release the segment 63. The

' latter instantly snaps into its closed'position, under the influence of the 69, and brings the upper pair of contact pieces 70 down onto the brush 75. This closes the circuit and the motor 76 is started. Meanwhile the lever 32 rises with the trip-arm 45, under the influence ofthe spring 49 and the counterweights or counterweighted parts into the former position, in readiness for the next coin, and at the same time the latch 58 is swung down to locate the hook 59 in the path of the hook when the segment 63 is subsequently elevated by the eccentric 66. The toweling strip 25 is always in the grasp of the feed-rollers 20, but at this time hangs freely in the space between the low parts of the cutting-rollers 21 and 22, because said cutting-rollers are disposed with their high parts outwardly, as shown. Upon the closing of the circuit and the starting of the motor, the feed-rollers are set in motion and continue to revolve until said motor stops, and while thus revolving, said rollers draw off more and more of the strip 25 from the roll 16. By thetime enough of the paper strip is fed down through the guide 23 and the slot 12, for a towel the length of which is calculated from the cutting line to the bot- A coin isated by a coin,

messes tom edge, said strip is severed in the following manner: As the gear 95 approaches the end of its revolution, the segmental gear 97 engages the pinion 98 and thus causes the cutting-rollers to be set in motion, and

towel, the brush 75 is making the circuit of the switch, and when said brush arrives at the upper rear end of the frame 62 and slips off of the same into the open space left by the segment 63, which is elevated just before this time into engaging latch 58, b the eccentric 66, the circuit is opened, and the motor with all of the members driven thereby stops.

In the first view roll 16 and its core 18 are broken away to portions of the toweling relation with the show, one of the hub projections 19 in and the switch casing 46 is in section.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination, in check controlled apparatus, with a lever adapted to be actuand atrip-arm in operative relation to said lever and provided with a latch, of an electric motor, an electric circuit for such motor,:a rotary member operatively connected with said motor, a movable member in such circuit adapted to be engaged by and released from said latch, said movable member being in the path of said rotary member and capable of being actuated by the latter into engagement with said latch, and means to close such circuit through said movable member, when the latter is released from said latch.

2. The combination, in check-controlled apparatus, with a triparm provided with locking and releasing means, and coin-operated means to operate said trip-arm, of an electric motor, an electric circuit for such motor, an annulus in such circuit, such annulus having a pivotally attached segment adapted to be engaged by and released from said locking and releasing means, a rotary member operatively connected with said mo tor and arranged to actuate said segment into engagement with said locking and releasing means, and a rotary member, also in said circuit, with which said segment contacts, when released from said locking and releasing means, to close said circuit.

3. The combination, in check-controlled apparatus, with a lever adapted to beactuated by a coin, and a relation to said. lever, said trip-arm being trip-arm in operative an electric circuit for such motor, an annulus in such circuit, such annulus having a pivotally attached segment adapted to be en-- gaged by and released from said latch, an eccentric operatively connected with said motor and arranged to actuate said segment into engagement with said latch, and a revoluble brush also in said circuit and arranged to he contacted with by said segment, when the latter is released from said lock- 10 ing and releasing means, to close said cir- 

